Want to skip the crowds and price-fixed menus restaurants may rope you into for Valentine’s Day?

Fegley’s Brew Works has a Beer Lovers Dinner in the works for those who want a quieter celebration, albeit a few days after the holiday.

With the winter weather we’ve had recently, the Feb. 21 event could be right on time.

The beer pairing dinner will feature a 5-ounce pour of a Brew Works beer and a 5-ounce pour of guest brewery Oskar Blues with four of the five courses. A welcome course will feature a 9-ounce glass of Brew Works’ Always Sunny Pale Ale and butlered hors d’oeuvres. Tickets cost $50 per person for the Brew Works’ Lehigh Valley Beer Week dinner.

A representative from Oskar Blues and Brew Works founders and brewers will talk about the selected beers with each course.

“It’s kind of our version of a Valentine’s Day dinner,” says Brew Works’ Corporate General Manager and Lehigh Valley Beer Week President Jesse Albertson.

It’s the third year the Brew Works has hosted the dinner and it tries to feature a different guest brewery every time.

“This is a really great time for our chefs to shine. It’s our night to be fancy,'' Albertson says.

Albertson says arranging the beer and food pairings for these sit-down dinners is one of his favorite parts of the job.

And Jill Oman, executive chef of Bethlehem Brew Works, has quite the menu to pair with it.

“My original thought was Fat Tuesday,” Oman says of the New Orleans-themed menu she designed. Guests will start with muffuletta sliders, progress to Andouille sausage and shrimp over grits, sample crab cakes with lemon roulade and dirty rice and make their way to a dessert plate featuring Southern-fried beignets and Bananas Foster with house-made ice cream.

Oman loves doing beer pairing dinners, and says the events have become so popular they’ve outgrown Bethlehem Brew Works. The Feb. 21 event will be hosted at Allentown Brew Works’ High Gravity lounge.

“I love it. I wish I could do one every month,” Oman says, adding that the dinners are a way to showcase the best of the restaurants. “I think a lot of people forget the creativity of our culinary and brewing teams.”

The dinner is capped at 100, and the Brew Works had sold about 40 tickets by Tuesday of this week.

Albertson says the best part about the event is that beer geeks and beer novices can find a place at the table.

“If you’re a beer geek, you get excited to meet the owners of a brewery. If you’ve never been to a beer dinner before, we’re a good intro to one because we’re very welcoming and never snobby.”

Beer geeks will also relish the chance to try Brew Works beers not normally found on tap and beers they may not have had from the Colorado-based Oskar Blues brewery.

Foodies will be in good company too, Albertson jokes.

“You can geek out and ask the chef what’s in that beer cheese soup,” he jokes.

“Everyone always leaves with a smile on their face,” Albertson says.

But one word of advice: “Get tickets now. They will sell out,” he recommends.